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Morning
Song Title
Morning (
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Composer(s):
Benjamin Britten
Composer Underrepresented Group
LGBTQ+ (
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Author(s):
Ronald Duncan
Keyword(s) & Features:
Aflame
;
Beauty
;
Bending
;
Day
;
Full
;
Great
;
Green
;
Hearts
;
Heavy
;
Herons
;
Imagery
;
Jumping
;
Leaving
;
Lifting
;
Manes
;
Metaphor: Morning as Heron
;
Metaphor: Morning as Smoke
;
Metaphor: Morning as Stallion
;
Metaphor: Morning as Women
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Metaphor: Night as Snake
;
Morning
;
Nature
;
Night
;
Oceans
;
One Octave or Less
;
Pails
;
Personification: Morning
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Plumes
;
Rising
;
Scarlet
;
Seas
;
Sky
;
Smoke
;
Snakes
;
Stallions
;
Time
;
Time of Day
;
Valleys
;
Velvet
;
Wells
;
White
;
Wings
;
Women
First Line
Morning is only (
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Average Duration
1:30 (
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Year of composition
1944 - 1945
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Link to English Text Online
https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=31420
Larger Work
Three Songs from This Way to the Tomb (
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Original Language
English (
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Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/2EfP0P6HUqv3yqU3m57uW2
Catalog Designation
No. 2 (
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Voice part suggested by composer
Medium voice
Range:
E4 - D5 (
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Notes
From the incidental music to the play This Way to the Tomb. Linked recording is a unison children choir version (
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Recommended Printed Source
https://www.halleonard.com/product/48011080/evening-morning-night
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Sources Cited
http://www.brittensongdatabase.com/browse/by-ability-level/moderately-easy/morning.html
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Contributor
GTM , Wyatt Brown (
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Contributor Affiliation
Texas Tech University (
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